Chattanooga State's Lady Tigers won 84-83 at home over the 16th-ranked women's basketball team in the NJCAA, South Georgia Tech, on Wednesday. Sydney Sims and Raujua Terry each hit two late free throws to enable the Lady Tigers (5-1) to withstand a 3-pointer in the closing seconds by South Georgia (7-1). The Chattanooga State men then outscored the Hiwassee junior varsity 99-90. Sims scored 20 points, Kaela Patrick had 14 and Terry and Mia Collins added 12 apiece for the winning women, while Teondra Crawford had nine assists. DaV Moore had 16 points and 17 rebounds for the Chattanooga State men, who got 15 points each from Develyn Williams and Brandon Shingles and 14 from Boban Jacdonmi. Jacob Elliott scored 31 for Hiwassee.
* Cleveland State's basketball Lady Cougars are 7-1 after winning on the road against the Milligan junior varsity Tuesday, as Leisa Butler had 15 points and 10 rebounds and Ny'Asia Holmes scored 14 points. But the Cleveland State men lost 80-69 at Athens against the Tennessee Wesleyan jayvees. Dontrell Whitaker scored 18 points and Javel Gillespie had 16 with four 3-pointers in defeat.
* The Bryan College basketball teams split an Appalachian Athletic Conference doubleheader with Kentucky's Union College on Wednesday in Dayton, with the Lady Lions (7-0, 1-0) winning 77-49 and the Bryan men (3-3, 0-1) losing 82-73.
* Tennessee Wesleyan lost an AAC basketball doubleheader with Milligan on Wednesday in Athens, with the TWC men falling 86-85 in overtime after the women lost 71-68. Melanie Barker led TWC's women (0-3, 0-2) with 18 points and 10 rebounds, while Hunter Simpson added 13 points and Kelsey Young grabbed four steals. Hayley Wyrick led Milligan (7-0, 2-0) with 21 points. Milligan's men (6-0, 2-0) dropped the Bulldogs to 2-2 and 0-2.
* The Hiwassee women's basketball team lost 88-32 Wednesday night at NCAA Division II member Alabama-Huntsville. Halei Lequire and Chanelle Rogers each scored nine points to lead the Tigers (1-6), a National Christian College Athletic Association member.
* Darrius Fugh had 28 points and 14 rebounds and Andrew Johnson and Daniel Parrish had 12 points each as Georgia Northwestern beat the LaGrange junior varsity 98-87 Tuesday in Rossville. The Bobcats are 3-1. The Lady Cats (0-5) lost 67-30 to the Brenau JV.
Soccer
* The Red Bank-based Premier Soccer Academy under-18 boys won the Gatlinburg Showcase this past weekend for their fourth tournament title dating back to August. The PSA Rockets went 3-0 with scores of 3-0, 2-0 and 2-1.
Auto Racing
* Harold Fryar Jr. of Chattanooga, well-known as a former race-car driver throughout the South, died Monday at the age of 68. He also was a retired driver for Bobby Fryar Trucking Company. Graveside services will be held Friday at 3 p.m. at Tennessee-Georgia Memorial Park. Visitation is set for 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Friday at the South Crest Chapel of Lane Funeral Home.
Baseball
* George Genovese, a Chattanooga Lookouts infielder in 1950 who became a minor league manager and then a "super scout" for the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers, died Sunday in a Burbank, Calif., hospital at the age of 93. In his autobiography published this year, "A Scout's Report," Genovese said he was responsible for the signing of 44 players who became major leaguers. Among those were Bobby Bonds, George Foster, Jack Clark, Matt Williams and Gary Matthews.
* A more recent former Lookout, Carmelo "Carmen" Castillo, died Sunday night, apparently of a heart attack, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He was 57. He played in 119 games for Chattanooga in 1981 and batted .281 with 25 stolen bases and 11 home runs. Castillo went on to a 10-year major league career with the Cleveland Indians and next Minnesota twins.